Difference between Decline and Contraction

DECLINE vs CONTRACTION: NOUN

A downward slope or bend
A gradual decrease; as of stored charge or current
A condition inferior to an earlier condition; a gradual falling off from a better state
The process or result of declining, especially.
A gradual deterioration, as in numbers, activity, or quality.
A downward movement or fall, as in price.
A deterioration of health.
A downward slope; a declivity.
A bending or sloping downward; a slope; declivity; incline.
A descending; progress downward or toward a close.
The time of life when the physical and mental powers are failing. Quain.
A popular term for any chronic disease in which the strength and plumpness of the body gradually diminish, until the patient dies: as, he is in a decline.
In medicine: That stage of a disease when the characteristic symptoms begin to abate in violence.
A failing or deterioration; a sinking into an impaired or inferior condition; falling off; loss of strength, character, or value; decay.
Change toward something smaller or lower

A strong and often painful shortening of the uterine muscles prior to or during childbirth.
A shortening of a muscle when it is used.
A period of economic decline or negative growth.
A reversible reduction in size.
A marriage contract.
The shortening of a word, or of two words, by the omission of a letter or letters, or by reducing two or more vowels or syllables to one; as, ne'er for never; can't for can not; don't for do not; it's for it is.
Something contracted or abbreviated, as a word or phrase; -- as, plenipo for plenipotentiary; crim. con. for criminal conversation, etc.
The act of incurring or becoming subject to, as liabilities, obligation, debts, etc.; the process of becoming subject to.
The process of shortening an operation.
The act or process of contracting, shortening, or shrinking; the state of being contracted.
The act or process of contracting or acquiring: as, the contraction of a debt.
In mathematics, any device for abridging the mechanical labor of making calculations by diminishing the number of characters written down.
In surgery, an abnormal and permanent alteration in the relative position and forms of parts, arising from various causes, as in ankylosis, distortion, clubfoot, wryneck, etc.
The act of making a contract; the state of being under a contract, especially one of marriage.
In ancient prosody, the use of a single long time or syllable in place of two short times.
A process whereby one or more sounds of a free morpheme (a word) are lost or reduced, such that it becomes a bound morpheme (a clitic) that attaches phonologically to an adjacent word.
A distinct stage of wound healing, wherein the wound edges are gradually pulled together.
The acquisition of something, generally negative.
Syncope, the loss of sounds from within a word.
Contracting a disease.
A word with omitted letters replaced by an apostrophe, usually resulting from the above process.
The act of decreasing (something) in size or volume or quantity or scope
(physiology) a shortening or tensing of a part or organ (especially of a muscle or muscle fiber)
Specifically A shortening of a word in pronunciation or in writing: as, can't is a contraction of cannot.
The process or result of becoming smaller or pressed together
The act of contracting or the state of being contracted.
A word, as won't from will not, or phrase, as o'clock from of the clock, formed by omitting or combining some of the sounds of a longer phrase.
The formation of such a word.
The shortening and thickening of functioning muscle or muscle fiber.
A period of decreased business activity.
The act of drawing together or shrinking; the condition of becoming smaller in extent or dimensions through the nearer approach to one another of the parts; the state of being contracted; a decrease in volume, bulk, or dimensions, as from loss of heat.
The act of making short, of abridging, or of reducing within a narrower compass by any means; the act of lessening or making smaller in amount; the state of being so lessened; reduction; diminution; abridgment: as, a contraction of the currency.
A word formed from two or more words by omitting or combining some sounds

DECLINE vs CONTRACTION: VERB

Go down
Refuse to accept
Grow worse
Show unwillingness towards
Go down in value
Inflect for number, gender, case, etc., in many languages, speakers decline nouns, pronouns, and adjectives inflectfornumbergendercaseetci
Grow smaller

DECLINE vs CONTRACTION: INTRANSITIVE VERB

To degrade or lower oneself; stoop.
To sink, as the setting sun.
To draw to a gradual close.
To refuse politely: : refuse.
To cause to slope or bend downward.
To inflect (a noun, a pronoun, or an adjective) for number and case.
To bend downward; droop.
To slope downward; descend.
To express polite refusal.
To turn away; to shun; to refuse; -- the opposite of accept or consent.
To turn or bend aside; to deviate; to stray; to withdraw
To tend or draw towards a close, decay, or extinction; to tend to a less perfect state; to become diminished or impaired; to fail; to sink; to diminish; to lessen
To bend, or lean downward; to take a downward direction; to bend over or hang down, as from weakness, weariness, despondency, etc.; to condescend.
To deteriorate gradually; fail.

DECLINE vs CONTRACTION: TRANSITIVE VERB

To run through from first to last; to repeat like a schoolboy declining a noun.
To inflect, or rehearse in order the changes of grammatical form of.
To put or turn aside; to turn off or away from; to refuse to undertake or comply with; reject; to shun; to avoid
To cause to decrease or diminish.
To bend downward; to bring down; to depress; to cause to bend, or fall.

DECLINE vs CONTRACTION: OTHER WORD TYPES

To lower; degrade; debase.
To decrease; diminish; reduce.
To cause to deviate from a straight or right course; turn aside; deflect.
To turn aside from; deviate from.
To avoid by moving out of the way; shun; avoid in general.
To refuse; refuse or withhold consent to do, accept, or enter upon: as, to decline a contest; to decline an offer.
Inflect for number, gender, case, etc., "in many languages, speakers decline nouns, pronouns, and adjectives"
As of stored charge or current
A gradual decrease
Inflect for number, gender, case, etc.
To stoop, as to an unworthy object; lower one's self; condescend.
Not accept as true
In grammar, to inflect, as a noun or an adjective; give the case-forms of a noun or an adjective in their order: as, dominus, domini, domino, dominum, domine.
To bend or slant down; assume an inclined position; hang down; slope or trend downward; descend: as, the sun declines toward the west.
To deviate from a right line; specifically, to deviate from a line passing through the north and south points.
To deviate from a course or an object; turn aside; fall away; wander.
To sink to a lower level; sink down; hence, figuratively, to fall into an inferior or impaired condition; lose strength, vigor, character, or value; fall off; deteriorate.
To incline morally; be favorably disposed.
To incline; tend.
To approach or draw toward the close.
To refuse; express refusal: as, he was invited, but declined.
Fall in value
To cause to bend or slope; bend down; incline; cause to assume an inclined position; depress.
In chess, to refuse to take a piece or pawn offered.

DECLINE vs CONTRACTION: RELATED WORDS

Drop, Decrease, Pass up, Turn down, Go down, Refuse, Declivity, Reject, Descent, Downslope, Worsen, Decay, Wane, Fall, Diminution

Tightening, Shrinking, Constriction, Weakening, Retrenchment, Slowing, Slump, Deflation, Recession, Downturn, Shrinkage, Decline, Slowdown, Condensation, Compression

DECLINE vs CONTRACTION: DESCRIBE WORDS

Decreases, Slowdown, Deterioration, Decrease, Turn down, Go down, Refuse, Declivity, Reject, Descent, Downslope, Worsen, Decay, Fall, Diminution

Meltdown, Tightening, Shrinking, Constriction, Weakening, Retrenchment, Slowing, Slump, Deflation, Recession, Downturn, Shrinkage, Decline, Slowdown, Compression

DECLINE vs CONTRACTION: SENTENCE EXAMPLES

The world has been in decline ever since.
Economic changes included a decline in local manufacturing.
New York, its biggest intraday decline since Sept.
There is no doubt that the city has suffered from structural decline and that state and city policies have not successfully addressed that decline.
That difference increased sharply in recent months as the decline in the Treasury yield was greater than the decline in the mortgage rate.
But with the decline of community participation comes the decline of trust.
And the cause that increase is a huge decline in mortality, while birth rates were hesitant to decline in parallel with death rates.
You must use a formal decline letter on all declines, signed by theindividual having authority to approve or decline the loan.
Some decline, others give in and still others decline formally but accept privately.
Can treat persons with occupational performance decline or at risk for a decline.

It also covers information about nueromuscular junction, muscle changes during contraction and the physiology behind how muscle contraction works.
Player game has students matching the two words that make a contraction to the contraction word on their.
The solutions caused contraction, inhibited contraction to occur, or had no effect on the sarcomeres at all.
Actinide contraction is greater from element to element than lanthanide contraction.
This will assess the inner range abdominal contraction against resistance, and identify if they can produce a maximal contraction.
In this page we look at the physiology behind muscular contraction and what causes a contraction to cease.
Minimizing the risk of delayed alar contraction due to scar and flap contraction must be prioritized.
These filaments are composed of proteins that either cause contraction or prevent contraction.
Inhibition of Contraction There are conditions within muscles that can affect contraction.
How long a contraction lasts is from the beginning of the contraction until the end of that contraction.

DECLINE vs CONTRACTION: QUESTIONS

When did building of causewayed enclosures decline?
How fast do Fusarium oxysporum populations decline?
Can courts decline to overrule legislative enactments?
Is political participation and engagement in decline?
Can ex-presidents decline Secret Service protection?
Does bilingualism protect against cognitive decline?
How does estrogen influence neurodegenerative decline?
Does increased education accelerate fertility decline?
Are neonicotinoids causing bird population decline?
What are some common mistakes when doing decline decline bench sit-ups?

Why does everyone experience contraction pain differently?
What happens to myosin during sarcomere contraction?
What causes muscle contraction in multiple sclerosis?
Which Myosin is responsible for muscle contraction?
Which protein inhibits skeletal muscle contraction?
What causes premature ventricular contraction (PVC)?
Does eccentric muscle contraction stimulate hypertrophy?
What triggers postprandial gallbladder contraction?
What is loss of head sudden contraction and coefficient of contraction?
What is the effect of eccentric contraction on muscle contraction?

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DIFFERENCE BETWEEN DECLINE AND CONTRACTION

DECLINE vs CONTRACTION: NOUN

DECLINE vs CONTRACTION: VERB

DECLINE vs CONTRACTION: INTRANSITIVE VERB

DECLINE vs CONTRACTION: TRANSITIVE VERB

DECLINE vs CONTRACTION: OTHER WORD TYPES

DECLINE vs CONTRACTION: RELATED WORDS

DECLINE vs CONTRACTION: DESCRIBE WORDS

DECLINE vs CONTRACTION: SENTENCE EXAMPLES

DECLINE vs CONTRACTION: QUESTIONS